Syntactic and prosodic scrambling in Japanese

This paper presents evidence thatJapanesehas prosodic scrambling of phonologicalphrases(ɸ)in additionto the well-studied syntactic scrambling of XPs.All cases of scramblingin Japaneseinvolve fronting constituents, be theysyntactic XPs or phonologicalɸs.If the syntax cannot move XPs,the phonology is forced tomove their prosodic equivalents: theseɸs are fronted to the left edge of the intonational phrase (ι) that contains them and join to make a single recursive ɸ, the domain for tonal downstep (Itô & Mester2012, 2013). Syntactic scrambling ‘bleeds’prosodic scrambling, adding supportfor a uni-directional, feed-forward model of syntax-phonology interactions. Syntactic scrambling frontsXPs andobeys syntactic conditions on movement, and thescrambled XP exhibits interpretive effectsin its surface position. Prosodic scramblingfrontsɸsandis blind tosyntactic conditionson movement, and the scrambled ɸs are interpretedin situ, as expected.